Inside The Cockpit - Dornier Do-31
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- The Dornier Do-31 is a West-German V/STOL transport jet designed during the Cold War. Let's get onboard this one and discover what make this aircraft tick!
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Dornier, GAF T.O. 1C-Do 31 E1/E3-1, Vorläufiges Flughandbuch Transportflugzeug Dornier Do 31 E1/E3, August 1969
NASA, TN D-6754, A Flight Evaluation of a VTOL Jet Transport Under Visual and Simulated Instrument Conditions, March 1972
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Harrier: "I'm one of the most complex and difficult-to-fly VTOL airplanes that ever flew."
Do 31: "Hold my beer stein!"
Easily one of the most remarkable airplanes that ever flew! Thanks for sharing with us!
I concur
True that!
There were a number of tenders to NBMR.4 including from British Aircraft Companies, including BAC and Hawker Siddeley.
Made me laugh but it’s fare to say this one very complex piece of kit and significantly over engineered but credit to Germany for pushing the envelope 👍🏻
What is a beer stein? ...as a German, I'm just wondering...
This looks like something I'd have built in Kerbal Space Program. Huge, stupendously impractical and with as many engines I could fit on it.
Moar boosters bou
Your obvious pride and smile was easy to see and we can all see why. What and an incredibly very rare and innovative a/c. Thanks.
The Do-31 E-1 is infront of the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen. two were build. Testing of the VTOL Systems were conducted with the "Schwebegestell" to set up the control systems. With an another construction there trialed the complete system. The ground erosion was too much. It broke some flight records, but the high fuel consumption on a cargo plane didnt make it up in the long run. And it was the time of the oil crises. We germans want always something that can do everything.
Another interesting prototyp of Dornier is the Do-29. Testing of STOL capabilites.
It looks like it could be in Thunderbirds. What an amazing aircraft!
The Gerry Anderson show, UFO, did have a VTOL transport, actually.
@@fazole I thought I had a vague memory of one of the Gerry Anderson shows having something like that but couldn't put my finger on it. Yes! UFO! I think it carried three tracked vehicles with some kind of weapon on their roof
I love how happy he looks when he’s like “and it’s German”
What I love about the Dornier Do 31 is how it is so innovative yet conventional, it employs many design characteristics of relatively conventional airplanes and overall is an aesthetically pleasing aircraft, despite how unorthodox it is. It's the most beautiful combination of conventionality and innovation. Truly a masterpiece of German engineering.
Looks like a Buck Rogers spaceship.
I LOVE IT!
The original Buck Rogers would have look at home in it
That's what I thought!!!!
Honestly it kinda looks like a mosquito just because of the tube at the front
@@Eagle-od1im I can see that the windscreen kinda look like compound eyes
The front looks like the cockpit of the millenium falcon
The VW beside it looks really cool too
I remember as a kid seeing pictures of this bird in many books I had. Now that I'm turning 50, I nearly forgot about this one. VERY glad you were able to review her. She's remarkable.
FINALLY ANOTHER "INSIDE THE COCKPIT" VIDEO THESE ARE MY FAV!!!!
dragon fly eyes to control it
When a german think that something Is overcomplicated you know that the designer spent too much hours on the project
That smug look on your face when you tell us its german...
"A proud German shows off his toys"
@blueboywhitie lol
GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
@blueboywhitie That's Fokker. And World War 1 Era.
British engine, never would have flown without the Pegasus
The front of the plan reminds me of the ship Flash Gordon used to impale Emperor Ming with. Go Flash!
That's the one mate! 👍
Where do you think they got inspiration?
War rocket Ajax
Germany: we want a VTOL transport plane
Harrier:
Germany: **straps a Harrier to each wing**
Lol job done ✔
"It is German."
It has 10 engines.
"The only jet powered VTOL transport in the world."
It has 10 engines.
To prevent one side going rogue, each engine is cross coupled with it's counterpart on the other side.
It haS TEN engines.
It is perhaps over complicated.
It has TEN ENGINES!!!
Also, engines are not German ;)
@@MilitaryAviationHistory There ARE ten engines.
LOL. The things military planners want vs what technology can provide.
So what? The Do X had 12 engines 😀
Fueled with sauerkraut...
Dornier Do31: "I have ten engines!"
Soviet N1 Moon rocket: "Hold my beer little boy"
The V-22 Osprey's jet-powered cousin. Which also struggled with getting buy-in and development. I suspect if the Do-31 hadn't needed the wing-tip engine pack, then it might have been a more successful 'sell' as an aircraft worth developing. Fascinating as ever, thank you for bringing it to us, and thank you to the Deutsches Museum for preserving it in such a beautiful condition.
Sci-fi vibe? Looks like classic WW2 Dornier styling to me
It's the closest thing to a real millennium falcon to ever fly. So that cockpit gets sci fi points from me.
On my way to Austria last year before covid 19 hit my flight was diverted to Friedrichshafen where I got on a coach. I couldn't believe my eyes when we drove past the DO31 at the Dornier museum. I was not expecting to see that and it really made my day to get the unexpected chance to see such a rare and special aircraft.
Also made me smile to see how proud they are of Zeppelin's with so many posters of Zeppelin's at the airport
Another beautiful piece of engineering that was forgotten by history.
It's a VTOL: 🙂
Transport plane: 😲
Has 10 jet engines : 😧
It's German : 😱
I can imagine the vine boom sound effects after each reaction
Your throughly explanation of these aircraft make me want to keep watching. Your enthusiasm is great
Great report on a very interesting concept aircraft. I particularly like the manner in which the control gauges were highlighted and identified. This furthers understanding of the ergonomic workload of the air crew. Thank you.
This is the pinnacle of Kraut Space Magic
Thank you Chris for your continuing amazing videos, and thank you to the wonderful museum to allow you such access. Very interesting aircraft!
This looks like something straight from despicable me.
Ein oft besuchtes Museum!
Visited 2015. Highly recommend. Glad to see they brought this unique magnificent beast inside to preserve it.
Thanks for a really interesting and informative video. I especially admire how well you handle the camera when you're focusing on an aircraft's subsystems. That's a challenge under museum conditions, I think.
Thank you for your help in learning more about the aircraft and as always a very informative speech
Hi Chris. Great presentation and thoroughly enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
This a great video of a very interesting and complex aircraft. Thanks so much, Bismarck!
Great content. Could watch this all day.
Absolutely mind-blowing aircraft! I've always loved the Do-31. Thanks for the great video.
Very informative video. Happy to see the aircraft in such a good shape.
Sehr gut erklärt ! Dankeschön !
Wow, this video was a excellent surprise this morning. It warmed and VTOL’d my chest cavity!
I love this idea but its easy to see why it wasn't taken on because the main use of VTOL in a cargo role would surely be the ability to drop cargo somewhere that would be inaccessible by conventional planes. While VTOL craft like this can operate on small patches of land without a runway, they still require a 'good' surface to land on, which limits them to maybe built up areas like car parks or roads or something?
If only there was another kind of cargo transport that didn't actually even have to touch the ground to deliver something heavy.... oh wait, helicopters :P
Now I'm definitely more of a plane enthusiast than helicopter fan, but one cannot deny that the Soviets had the much better idea of just using choppers to throw stuff about instead of making an awesome big jet thingymabob like this
At 12:10 please clarify that the Dornier Do 31 is the only all jet VTOL transport aircraft. There is the V-22 Osprey transport today and the Fairey Rotodyne way back in 1957 and the LTC XC-142 back in 1964.
I remember when this was literally stuck outside the main door of the museum. A very long time ago!
I absolutely love this plane. I know I should not talk about other channels here but I first heard about this aircraft from Mustard's video :)
Great plane, love the inside the cockpit!
Such a cool design. Great video, thanks.
Always good with a new mil av history video upload.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the internals visit!!!! Wow....I can only imagine the pilots.....going from rotor / planes to this!!!!! I wonder if any good pilot stories still exist! Thank you again Chris!
I remember this plane was at the front entrance of the Munich Science Museum when I visited as a 17 year old in 1988.
I didnt ever expect this beauty im more than happy
So nice to see it restored. I remember it standing in front of the Deutsches Museum in Munich in the 80s, exposed to the elements.
Yes. Standing outside of the museum. In the daily press they called the plane "the most expensive pigeon nest of Germany", because on every possible position you could found at that time pigeons.
Very impressive production..as the others....thanks very much!
Nice episode. I did not hear of this plane before and did not consider it feasible. Remarkable, that it actually flew. Would love to see some footage of it flying.
A beautiful plane in its own special way.
Did you know that Dornier Do17 was produced in Serbia once upon a time? I didn't. And when I found out, I start to admire all of Dornier aircrafts.
wow i was just looking for the do31 cockpit thanks
I remember watching a video about this plane by Mustard. Very nice to see inside of it too now.
Same lol
Cool review
Love finding Bismark on his own TH-cam channel!! Love Bo TIme!!
Remember Mustard’s video on this…
…thing?
It’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but it is not typical.
I guess that’s what makes it cool, it goes outside of box that makes most aircraft typical
Reminds me of the Boeing YC 14 and Mc Donnell Douglas YC 15 the complicated VSTOL never replace the Lockheed C 130 and the Canadair tilt wing CL 84. The CL 84 was intended for use for the US Navy sea control ships, US marines and the Canadian armed forces. While a prototype crashed at sea after testing off the USS Gram in 1972 it was still sound inspiring the Bell V 22. I remember building a model of a CL 84 that tilting wings with down to scale stores it would carry and even the history of the aircraft cancelled by Pierre Trudeau in 1974. But due to heavy American interest and investment despite being Canadian made my teacher while impressed questioned it's Canadian content but was fairly graded.
WOW this is so cool!
Amazing machine.
It would have been interesting to see the view from the front seats through that super looking windscreen.
I don't think I've seen such a pleasing front on an aircraft except the B29. (oh and of course the Millennium Falcon (which I think is a B29))
I've walked through this aircraft at Oberschleißheim. It's an artwork in tissue-paper-thin aluminum. The Dornier Do-31. The "Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim" (it's an annex to Munich's German Museum of "Masterpieces of Science and Technology" and is also worth a visit) is well worth the visit. Outside of Winter, take your roller blades - That is, if you don't ride your bicycle from Munich's city centre. This aircraft comes with chrome bling. They also have a very truthful hang gliding exhibit. There's a video suggestion 🙂
How come this never appeared in a James Bond movie? That’s some real kraut space magic.
I need visit this museum!!!!!!!
Grate video.
saw it for the first time at Dornier in Oberpfaffenhofen. was working in the hangar right next to it. i heard that it had a compressor stall problem in ground effect. thats why it blew the mlg tires all the time. when i saw it they were flat.
We gotta talk about that pre 1968 Volkswagen Transporter too... 😊
I’m so happy this existent!
Very interesting Bismarck, I liked very much aince it was slightly mentioned in the documentary film by DW about Claude Dornier business; I enjoyed your "it's german" because we're in the same wavelength, and I think that this 67 technology can be updated with the one we have today.
You forgot to mention the amazing sound it made when it takes off!
Reminds me of the Arado bomber
Now you mention it I can see what you mean.
Quite possible that Donier ended up with personnel and/or technical/engineering data from Arado post WWII.
I remember that Do, for years it was displayed outside in front of the Deutsche Museum in Munich in the seventies till early eigthies.
Cargo space looks similar to the Osprey.
Why was an evidentely technology-savvy company like Dornier not integrated into the ATR-project....?
I remember reading about that plane in the mid 60's. I always wondered what happened to it.
How have I not heard of this before now!!!!!!!😳🤯
Looks very futuristic for this Periode of Time! Beautiful Aircraft! :)
You need to do an inside the cockpit on that gorgeous Type II double cab!
You should do a second follow up on the WV at 3:25. That paint scheme.
Good ol' Flugwerft Schleißheim!
Very cool Bis.......
Good to see that they fitted Mk9 Martin Baker bang seats for the pilots!
Wow, that’s incredible that they had that kind of technology at that time
Fascinating aircraft. I've never seen any info on its STOL capabilities. Apparently, this thing also used a hybrid analog-digital computer to help maintain directional control and stability. It'd be interesting to compare it to some of the contemporary cargo helicopters like the CH-53, for example.
Did it actually fly? Any footage of it flying? Why not include it flying as well from the archives.
Von den Fähigkeiten her geht die Do31 Richtung V-22 Osprey, wenn auch nicht die gleiche Größe.
Chris, it was nice of the museum to allow you to drive up and park your VW Bus really close to the D0-31. Question, what paint shop did you use for the checkerboard paint, awesome!
The really good video
Fabolous job as usual ! 😉 Do You think to do even the EWR VJ 101 ?
Yup, that's a Dornier! Cheers!
Nach Corona solltest du definitiv mal in das Udvar Hazy Center und ein paar Episoden dort drehen!! He-219, Ar-234, Ho 229... das wäre ultra! PS. Definitiv einer der interessantesten TH-cam Channel! Sehr cool!
Fascinating aircraft. Super video production, and yes, it is German. 😆
Thank you :)
Talk about a niche project!
If you've got a to get goods into an area without a runway, you can parachute them in out the back of a C-130 and it doesn't need a long runway to take-off from either.
Then for everything else the Chinook might only have half the range and speed (range being much more important for a transport aircraft) but it has twice the payload capacity.
The Germans sure made good use of that captured UFO tech! Was wondering where Man in the High Castle got this idea from. Did not realize this aircraft actually existed.
Great video as usual. A comment, at approx 12:00 you note this was the only vtol transport built. Could be technically correct depending on definitions but I’d like to raise the Canadair CL-84 for worthy recognition here. Keep up the great work.
I would like to give a call out for the Fairey Rotodyne. First vertical test flight in November 1957, first transition to forward flight in April 1958. Cancelled in typically British Government fashion February 1962 after most of the problems had been solved.
A great video, love the callouts on the instrument panels. These Dorniers supporting Harrier operations could have been awesome. Many years later the US has the Osprey which is more complex than this Dornier but seems to have similar capabilities. Perhaps a comparison of the two would be good.
Dornier burns 3 x the fuel probably than the Osprey that’s one comparison! Another might be it burns 10x the fuel :)
Great stuff! Interesting that everything is labeled in English.
Never thought I’d get to see the inside of such a weird aircraft.
you can go to the museum and look at the inside yourself! I was there a few months ago
@@tommihommi1 unfortunately, I live practically on the opposite side of the world. I would go if I could though!
@Mialisus "Moskito" at home: Ta 154
o wow this is exciting..
I thought one of the big issues was the noise and/or vibration levels- from what I'd seen somewhere else, it was so loud in the cockpit, that the pilots couldn't talk to one another...
Out of curiosity: are you recording with a Canon Powershot G7X?
One of these did a joint performance with a hovering Harrier at the Paris Air Show in 1969. I have been hoping to find film of it for years but so far no luck.